Which years and countries for World Silver Bullion set

Hi all. I saw a link to this thread come up in my Twitter feed and thought a page of ours might help. I have a visual guide to all the 2014 dated silver bullion coins on my site that might be useful if you're getting a set together. http://agaunews.com/reference-guide-2014-silver-bullion-coins/
We only do news, don't sell anything, so hope this is ok.

 

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So which of the many listed would you consider to be the primary example of bullion investment products? I would consider the Maple Leaf the primary Canadian example with the privy marks, wild life series, and others being more of a specialty product. So which would you rank as the primary versus specials/limited editions/collector versions?

 

Anything with an unchanging annual design has a very limited collector appeal for me.
As for the rest, it isn't always possible to predict what captures the general imagination. It's party about balancing mintage with premium over spot. If both are low there's probably some good potential there.

 

Was able to add another to the group. This one is the Astrian Phiharmonic. Seems the Kookaburra (Australia) and the Elephant (Somalia) are having the highest premium over spot.

 

I have gotten lucky on a couple auctions....getting the fair prices I like without the ebay community bidding these up to prices they do not deserve. Here is my recent addition.

 

Okay....so my list of 1 oz silver I am going after is.....

American Silver Eagle
Somalia Elephant
Austria Philharmonic
Canadian Maple Leaf
Australian Kookaburra
New Zealand Turtle
Armenian Noah's Ark
Burundi Lion
UK Britannia
China Panda
Mexico Libertad
Tokelau Tuna

From looking, these appear to be the bullion level of silver 1oz coins sold. There are many other coins sold, but the premiums are at levels where they are more collector focused than bullion investment focus. The Perth mint in Australia makes many many, but the Kookaburra seems to be the most bullion centric. Canadian mint also has many...but the Maple Leaf seems to be the investment grade. This gives a list of an even dozen...then becomes the fun of finding the specific year to get...key is to focus on bullion price point...if there is a big premium, it has become more of a collector coin.

Thoughts from anyone?

 

I started much the same as you, but now have a few hundred ounces. It is amazing just how many coins, rounds and bars there are! I knew someone who intended to collect just mint bars. He gave up - far too many.

 

I am doing something similar but I am also mixing it with contemporary silver crowns as well.

So far I have
United States Silver Eagle
Canada Maple Leaf
Mexico Libertad
China Panda
Austria Philharmonic
United Kingdom Brittania
Armenia Noahs Ark
Australia Kookaburra

but my list that I still want is
Australia Koala 2007-date
Australia Lunar 1999-2010
Australia Lunar II 2008-date
Australia Kangaroo 1993-date
Australia Salt Water Croc 2014
Fiji Taku (turtle) 2010-2013
New Zealand Kiwi 2004-2011
New Zealand Kiwi Treasures 2012-date
Cook Islands Ship 2009-date
Somalia Monkey 1998-2004
Somalia Wild Elephant 2004-date
Malawi Springbrok 2010-2011
Andora Eagle 2008-2013
Suriname Map 2013
Rwanda Cheetah 2008-date
Russia St. George 2009-2010
Kazakhstan Irbis (Snow Leopard) 2009-2010


I also have in my world crowns set
George V 1935 AU UK
Elizabeth II Churchhill 1965 F UK
1 Peco 1898 XF Mexico
Yuan 1927 XF China

 

MadMartigan...that is an impressive list to be chasing. Do you look to collect all the annual examples, or only one of each, or maybe one of each design where they change within a series?

Also...why not the Burundi Lion or Tokelau Tuna?

There are some in your list I may need to add to mine. Cook islands may be the first

 

Probably just one of each until I have the full set then I can look at adding different designs from inside the different sets like additional pandas and what not.

I want more crowns too, I am trying to mix it up. I need to add a morgan and a canadian silver dollar.